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ThingLink News - Five new image tags to engage, entertain and educate your users Newsletter Vol.2 16 January 2012 Five new image tags to engage, entertain and educate your users Greetings! The ThingLink Top 5 will return next week, but in the meantime, we thought we'd share another top five -- five brand new rich media tags. We're very excited by the tagging possibilities each presents to you, and can't wait to see what our users will do with them. And as a reminder, we do offer a rich media tag development environment that anyone with some technical know-how can use to make their very own tags. Read more » Little Kids Rock Little Kids Rock campaign contribution tag: We've rolled out a number of tags that allow users to purchase different items, but this is the first that allows them to contribute to charities. Little Kids Rock, which brings free musical instruments and music instruction to public school children, embedded the donation tag in cards sent out by board members and on its website to solicit contributions. Read more » Individual tweets by Twitter users Tweet tag: You can now link to any tweet, not just a twitter user -- for instance, if you want to embed a specific comment that's relevant to an image. Previously, an artist could only embed a tag to direct users to follow them on Twitter; now they are able to embed a tweet about, say, a new album, in an image of the album cover. Read more » Google Maps Google Maps tag: This works great for event invites -- embed a map to the event right in the image and make it even easier for attendees to find their way. Or use in a new story -- add a map to show viewers exactly where something happened and let them get a sense of the location in context. Read more » Tags your images with sounds and voices Qwipbacks and Chirbit: Now you have two more options in addition to SoundCloud for recording sound in images -- the Qwipbacks and Chirbit tags. Users can record their own comments on an image and also encourage others to do the same -- it's a real time conversation embedded right in a photo. Read more » We want your best tagged creations As always, send over great examples, comments, questions, and cookie recipes to cortney@thinglink.com.